Privacy Policy

    1.    Introduction

    1.1    This Privacy Policy sets out the privacy policy of sported., part of the Sported Foundation, a UK registered charity (number 1123313), company number 6541137 (England) and whose registered address is at 20 St. James Street, London, SW1A 1ES, ("sported."), who controls this website. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 and related legislation ("the DPA"), the data controller is The Sported Foundation.

    1.2    sported. is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and the purpose of this Privacy Policy is to describe to you how sported. will use personal information about you that is submitted to sported.

    1.3    By providing your personal information to sported., you consent to the collection and use of it and (any other information provided to sported.) in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If at any time you wish to change the uses of your personal information to which you have consented, please contact us.

    1.4    sported. may revise this Privacy Policy at any time by posting an update on its website(s). Please ensure that you check this website and any other sported. website(s) you use from time to time to review the then current Privacy Policy and to update your preferences. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 14.01.13.

     

    2.    Collection of Personal Information

    The types of personal information collected and stored by sported. might include (but are not limited to) your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, and fax number.

    2.1    sported. (or any of its sub-contractors) may collect personal information about you in the following ways:
    (a)    any data which you provide when you complete and submit an application to register your organisation as a member of sported.; request email alerts or other communications from sported.; make an application for funding on behalf of your organisation; or receive services or support from sported.;
    (b)    any other data which you provide to sported. when you enquire about our activities, email, telephone or write to us or otherwise provide us with personal information;
    (c)    sported. may also receive information about you from third parties, for example from another representative of your organisation.

     

    3.    Storage and retention of your information

    3.1    sported. will keep your information on a secure server. The technology that sported. uses and the security policies which sported. has implemented are intended to safeguard your information from unauthorised access and improper use.

    3.2    sported. will keep your information (to the extent permitted by the DPA) to enable sported. to use it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

     

    4.    Use of Your Information

    4.1    sported. may use your personal information for the following purposes (in addition to any other purpose for which you give your consent, or which is permitted under the DPA):
    (a)    administering your organisation's membership of sported. and otherwise in connection with any service, support or funding application for which your information is provided;
    (b)    responding to any enquiry you make;
    (c)    keeping you updated (including by post, email or telephone) about sported.'s activities and services, and those of other selected third parties we think you might be interested in; and
    (d)    for generating aggregated statistics about users, traffic patterns etc of the sported. website(s) and other services and developing sported.'s marketing plans.

    4.2    sported. may also disclose your information (subject in each case to the requirements of the DPA) as follows:
    (a)    to any service providers, sub-contractors and agents appointed by sported. to provide any function or service on its behalf and in accordance with its instructions;
    (b)    to third parties selected by sported. as part of aggregated and anonymised statistics about users, traffic patterns etc of the sported. website(s);
    (c)    to such individuals and/or bodies as necessary to ensure sported.'s compliance with any applicable law, regulation, legal proceeding or governmental request.
    (d)    in the event that sported. or The Sported Foundation is acquired by or merges with another company, to that company in order to enable your relationship with sported. to continue after the transfer/merger; and/or on a confidential basis to any company with whom sported. or The Sported Foundation is negotiating such a sale/merger as part of the verification exercise carried out by them.

     

    5.    Cookies

    5.1    To personalise your browsing experience, sported. uses "cookie" information technology. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that are issued by your computer when you enter a website. Cookies are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive and enable the website to identify your computer and to store information about your use and navigation of the website.

    5.2    Cookies enable sported. to store information about your preferences and therefore customise the website according to your individual interests. They are also used to monitor which parts of the website are the most popular to its visitors.

    5.3    You are not obliged to accept cookies and you can amend your browser's settings to prevent cookies being accepted by it. Please be aware that if you do disable cookies however, certain services on the sported. websites may not be available to you and your use and enjoyment of them may be impaired. Read more about our Cookie Policy.

     

    6.    Third Party Websites

    6.1    Please be aware that sported. does not control and is not responsible for websites that are referred to or linked from its own websites and that use of your personal information on these website is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

     

    7.    Registration

    7.1    To access certain parts of the sported. websites, sported. may require you to register and provide certain information about yourself.

    7.2    You are reminded that in addition to the provisions of this Privacy Policy, where you register you also agree to:
    (a)    provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the relevant registration form (such information being the "Registration Data"); and
    (b)    maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it fully up to date.